Puzzle



a/a FEM@ PUZZLE.

APPucATmN man JULY i9, 1920.

1,367,561. melma Feb. 8,1921.

A TTOHNEYS UNITED STATES MORRIS PEAK, OF KANSAS CITY, MISSOURI.

PMUZZLE.

Application filed July 19, 19%)A Be it known that l, Momes Peau, a citizen of the United States, and a. resident of Kansas City, in the county of Jackson and State of Missouri, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Puzzles, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to puzzles of that particular' class in which a board is provided having pens or inclosures formed thereon provided with gates or openino's so arranged as to render it extremely difllcult to cause spheres which are movable over the board to enter a particular pen.

lt is a purpose of' my invention to provide a puzzle of this character in which a pair of pens or inclosures are provided made up of' a plurality of arcuate flanges arranged to provide a plurality of ci cular channels conimunicating with each other at different joints so as to render it extremely difficult to manipulate the hoard so as to direct the spheres from the pens into a central. pen or goal interposed between the two pens.

l will describe one form of puzzle embodying my invention and will then point out the. novel features thereof in claim.

ln the accompanying drawings:

Figure 1 is a viel7 showing in top plan one form of puzzle embodyii'ig my invention.

Fig. 2 is a central longitudinal sectional view of the puzzle shown in Fig. 1.

Referring specifically to the drawings, in which similar reference characters refer to similar parts, B designates a board having rounded ends and upon which is formed upstanding flanges arranged to provide an interu'iediate inclosure or pen P and two end pens P1 and P2. The edge of the board B is provided with an unbrolren upstanding flange 15, which forms the perimeter of the ond pens P1 and P2 and the end inclosing portions of the pen P. The intermediate pen P is separated in part from the end pens P1 and P2 by flanges 16 and 16l disrupted at corresponding points intermediate their ends to provide gates 17 and 17a through which communication is effected between the end pens and the center pen. The end pens P1 and P2 are made up of a plurality of circular flanges arranged concentrically of each other and spaced apart to provide circular channels. The innermost flange is designated at 1S and is disrupted to provide ay gate 18ZL for effecting communication between the space within the Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Feb. 8, 1.92.1.

Serial No. 397,180.

flange and the channel between the inner most flange and the adjacent flange 19. The flange 19 is also provided with a gate 19 which effects connniiinication between the channel between the flanges 1S and 19 and the channel between the flanges 19 and Qi). lllhe flange 20 of the pen P2 is arranged .in spaced relation to the flange 15 and the flange 1G to provide a circular channel which communicates with the channel between the flanges 19 and 20 by a gate 202, and with the pen P through the gate 17. rlimilarly, the flange 2O of the pen Pl is arranged in spaced relation to the flange lo and the flange 1G so as to provide. a. circular channel which -o1nniunicates with the channel between the flanges 19 and 2O by the gate Q0@ and with the opening' P through the gate 17a.

As shown in Pig. 1, the several gates of the pens P1 and .P2 are arranged at points diametrically opposite to each other so as to render it extremely difficult for the passage of a sphere from one channel to the other. lt will he further noted that the gates of the pen P1 are disposed at right angles to the gates of the pen P2, this arrangement rendering it yet more diflicult to direct the spheres from channel to channel.

The spheres used in the puzzle are designate-.tl at S and are preferably in the -torni of marbles of a diameter to freely roll ben tween the flanges and through the several gates.

ln operation, the spheres are first as* semhled within the space defined by the flanges 18 of the pens P1 and P2, the object of the puzzle being to roll the several spheres from the renter of the pens P1 and P2 into the central pen P. This is accomplished by so manipulating the board that the spheres will roll outwardly vfrom the center of the pens through the` several gates and channels until they finally reach the central pen P through the gates 17 and 17, Beca-use of the st gered arrangement of the gates between 1e several channels and between the end .pens and the central pen, it will be clear that great skill is required in manipulating the board to direct the spheres from the cud pens to the center pen.

Although l have herein shown and described only one forni of puzzle embodying my invention,` it is to be understood that various changes and modifications may be Ina-de herein without departing from the 10 :irate und distinct sets of circular flanoes "formed on the board Within Said end inelosores, each se of circular Hang-es being a1'- ianged Conoentricaliy of each other to provide inei'w'ening ehanneis therebeween, said i'eifeisely curved zmges and said eireulzu being formed with gates o1' openings io efeei'. communication bet-Ween the seveai channels and between the end inclosuies and the Confini inelosure.

MORRXS PEA?. 

